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EXECUTIVE    DEPARTMEKT,    > 

MiLLEDGEVILLE.  Ga.,    Dec.    20,  1863.  > 

Sir  :  As  requested  by  the  General  Assembly,  I  have  the 
honor  herewith  to  transmit  to  you  a  copy  of  the  followini? 
Resolutions  passed  by  the  Legislature  of  this  State ;  and 
respectfully  invite  your  attention  to  the  same. 
Very  respectfully,   &c., 

JOSEPH  E.  BROWN. 


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RESOLUTIONS. 

iSesolations  to  saspeitd  the  coUectiuo  of  tax  ia  kind  in  certain  cases. 

Wliereas,  there  are  many  localities  in  the  State  of  Georgia  where  the  citi- 
r.ens  have  been  stripped  oi  nearly  every  species  of  personal  property  by  the 
enemy  or  the  aa^ents,  or  pretended  agents  of  the  Confederate  Government 
and  left  without  the  means  of  paying  their  Confederate  tax  and  especially  the 
"tax  in  kind,'"  for  the  tenth  haj  not  been  left  them.     Be  it  therefore 

Resolved,  That  the  Governor  of  this  State  be  requested  to  uie  his  utmost 
exertions  with  the  President  and  Secretary  of  War  lo  have  the  collection  of 
the  "tax  in  kind"  suspended  in  all  cases  where  the  citizens'  crop  out  of  which 
his  tax  was  to  be  paid  has  been  taken  by  the  enemy,  or  our  army  or  officers, 
and  that  the  collection  of  all  Confederate  Tax  bo  suspended  incases  where 
the  property  of  the  citizen  has  been  takiMi  by  Confederate  soldiers  or  officers 
without  couiponsation,  until  sucii  compensation  is  paid. 

Be  it  therefore  resolved,  That  in  c;is3  the  President  or  Secretary  of  war 
fail  to  grant  the  relief  above  mentioned  the  Governor  be  requested  to 
call  the  attention  of  our  Seiuilors  and  Kepresentatives  in  Congres  s  to  this 
matter,  and  to  use  all  lawful  means  to  prorect  tii3  citizens  against  wrong  and 
injustice. 

A.    K.   WRIGHT, 

I'resideut  of  the  Senate. 
L.  H.  Kena!», 

Secretary  of  the  Spnat*. 

THOMAS    HARDEMAN,  Jr., 

Speaker  of  the  House. 
L.  Carrington, 

Clerk  of  the  House. 

Assented  to  Nor.  18. 1863. 

JOSEPH  E.  BROWN, 

Governor. 


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